03/16/10 Change of entropy's repository

02/12/10 Mandatory entropy upgrade and wireless networks in KDE 4.4

Issues with wireless networks

We dropped the old Networkmanagement tool based on plasma with the change to KDE 4.4, so you have to use either knetworkmanager (KDE) or nm-applet (GNOME). This only affects Sabayon Linux version elder then 5.2.

Need to update entropy

In case you have download problems with equo/entropy, it is due your not up-to-date entropy. You can simply repair this with signing in as root in a terminal and running

# equo update && equo install entropy equo --nodeps && equo upgrade

10/14/09 Slow Speeds with Limbo Repo

You may notice a big slow down with entropy and Limbo Repo, please add this mirror under your existing Limbo line

03/29/09 Grub Issue

Getting reports that Grub issues are hitting a lot of people also, luckily you have some options.

1. The livedvd that you used to install with has in the installer an option to just reinstall grub, so boot up the livedvd, run the installer 'till you get to reinstall boot loader.

2. I highly recommend Super Grub Disk, it's a wonderful tool to restore Grub, saves a lot of headaches. Download the iso, burn it, boot it up, fix, reboot. Keep it safe as you will probably use it again.

I'm not sure what the prevention for this is, common sense tells me to reinstall grub before rebooting. I have a different grub so I can't test this out. I'm guessing the grub-install command

03/27/09 Entropy Wiki Addition

03/25/09 ext4 with kernel .29

If you upgrade to kernel 2.6.29 and have ext4, you have to edit you /etc/fstab file and remove the extents option as it is now default
so you will have a line like

File: /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb8 / ext4 extents,user_xattr,noatime 1 1

THIS IS WRONG NOW

You need to change it so it looks like:

File: /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb8 / ext4 user_xattr,noatime 1 1

THIS IS CORRECT

if you don't remove the extents option, your system will be stuck in Read Only mode and nothing will start up, you will have to reboot to the previous kernel to edit the /etc/fstab file than reboot back to .29

Maybe you're able to login into a terminal. Then run

# mount -o rw,remount /dev/sdb8

In this example, sdb8 is the root partition. You must modify the example to fit your needs. If it's working, you can edit /etc/fstab and reboot.

03/21/09 Update Information

We are seeing plenty of people having problems with updates as they don't realize what happens when there is a kernel change.

woot! and it is set to my nvidia, if it wasn't, I would of had to eselect opengl set 1

2.6.28-sabayon and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.41-r1#2.6.28-sabayon

Notice my Kernel matches my driver to same kernel version. This is critical, otherwise you are gonna boot up to a blinking cursor and run around screaming I Need Support!!!

This is not just an entropy or Sabayon Linux thing. Every time you change kernel in a distro you must rebuild the drivers/modules to work with your new kernel. This includes all hardware like cams, video, any thing that is a module.

and always always always

# equo conf update

and deal with the config files, you should look over this list and pay attention, most of time -5 is going to work fine, but if you suddenly boot to a different login manager, than you know you overwrote a config file you shouldn't of like /etc/conf.d/xdm, some others I do not over write are /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/hwclock, there is a couple others but I'm not going to list em all, you should get to know our config files

Udev Issue

We are seeing some weird thing with udev being removed from startup and this is bad bad bad, so before rebooting, make sure udev is in your startup by doing

Networking Issue

Hopefully in the future as entropy develops, some of these concerns will be address and make things even smoother for ya. Fabio is always making it better and easier for you, but in the meantime, keep these things in mind when you see a kernel change. Knowledge is power and the more you know what is changing in your system the better.